Friday, November 14, 2008

This was originally written for my guildies and is a rough guide to 425.

So Leatherworking in Northrend...ugh. I've not found a good guide to powerleveling yet, so I decided to try a hand at one.

ETA: The important thing that I got wrong from wowhead is that heavy borean leather is not actually trainable until 390. What I did to level was the following:375-380: 6x Borean armor kit (turns green at 380)380-385: 5x Iceborne Gloves385-390: 5x Nerubian Legguards (only did this to have some variety)

From 390-405 I made heavy borean and fur linings.

From 405-410 make Arctic Wristguards, which are 12 normal leather each and go green at 410.From 410-415 make Jormungar Leg Armor, which are 5 heavy borean and a jormungar scale each. And hopefully they'll sell decently. Also around this time get some arctic fur and make your fur linings, since that should ding you. If you have legs that are worth a damn you can get a couple of jormungar scales or nerubian chitin and make your cheap leg reinforcements too.

From 415-422 make pack of endless pockets, a 32-slot inscription bag. This takes 8 heavy borean. This is the only one that's trainable directly; the other nice bags (mining, leatherworking, and the quivers) require rep. If you have the rep, I'd recommend doing the leatherworking bag instead, as it requires kal'uak revered which you might have that early.

From 422 on it gets really sketchy.

From 422-430 (you can stop at 425 and do the next one if you want better chances, but it may be more expensive) do eviscerator's bindings or stormhide wristguards, depending on whether eternal air or water is cheaper/easier for you. They take 8 heavy borean + an eternal air or water. At 425 I'd also recommend pimping out yourself and looking for work so that you can get skillups on frosthide leg armor and icescale leg armor with their mats. These take two arctic furs and either two nerubian chitin or two icy dragonscales. If you're lucky or persistent, that can take you from 425-440 by itself. If you're unlucky or impatient, you'll need to make things like the eviscerator treads and eviscerator waistguard to 435. These should sell well at least, since there will be lots of people who want a starter pvp set. They take 10 heavy borean + an eternal air/water each.

At 435-440, about your only reasonable option is to make more leg armor patches. You can make more eviscerator gear, but it goes green at 435 and gray at 440, so you're looking at making a LOT of those.

And then you're done doing it for practical reasons. 440 is the max leatherworking you need for any recipe. Leg armor goes green at 440 and gray at 445, so past 445 the only things you can make are items that require frozen orbs.

Anyway, that's what I'm looking at doing. If you can get to 440 using just their mats, you're basically looking at the following mat requirements to get to 425:

838 borean leather (of which, 80 will be used to make actual items)8 jormungar scales3 eternal waters/eternal airs+ an arctic fur for your wrists and scales/chitin for your legs, if you so choose.

If you're going from 425-435 using your own mats, you will also need:130 heavy borean leather (or 780 borean leather) + 13 eternal airs/water as desired.

If you're going from 435-440 using your own mats, you will also need:14 arctic furs + 14 nerubian chitin or icy dragonscale as desired.

I didn't even realize that there were useful specializations in BC. :) The specializations were brought in for vanilla WoW and then pretty much ignored in BC. There are no specializations in leatherworking currently.

Whoops! Forgive my ignorance; I didn’t really start playing until BC came out. I assumed that they were BC thing since patterns like the Windhawk Set (forgive me, for I was a boomkin till 70) were my first epics. I was pretty proud of my epics even though they were crafted, because they were actually pretty decent for a non raider like I was at the time. If you don’t PVP, and you are not good enough/don’t have enough friends on at your play time to run heroics, crafted items can at least give you some goals to shoot for.

Personally I’ll just be skinning the heck out of everything and stock piling half of it in the bank and then the other half selling on the AH for gold.

Yeah, I included the vendor and trainer recipes. The problem is that really from 425-440, there's only one good option: the epic leg enchants. You can make other items, but the amount of leather and non-leather items they cost and the speed that they go green is pretty insane.

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Kalon likes playing tanks, no matter how hard he tries to fight it. He is not as hardcore as many but spends a lot of time thinking about WoW, and randomly rants about it now and then. He played formerly on the Argent Dawn (EU) server and was a founding member of Fire and Blood (Quel'Dorei) before joining Casually Serious, a guild devoted to hard core progression on only 8 hours of raiding time a week.
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